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broad

[brawd] / brɔd /








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"It has broad applications, and we hope the life science community will be well served by it, leading to many new discoveries."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

ROS are a type of free radical, a broad term for one class of unstable, high-energy molecules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

A broad tech selloff Friday punctuated the market’s worst week since June as the Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Morningstar analyst Luke Yang told MarketWatch there wasn’t one single factor gripping the market on Friday, as investors seemed to be digesting a broad breakdown of faith in the AI trade this week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

JonPaul is nearly six feet tall, with shoulders as broad as a four-lane highway, and he can bench-press me.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

There are three broads areas of concern the players want addressing:

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Us old broads are trying to learn the new technology because, I mean, we’re kind of trapped,” said Linda Harner, whom I met at the Culver City Senior Center, where she takes a Spanish class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2022

This is a workout for ladies, by which she means older broads who might appreciate the occasional low-impact leg lifts.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019

“I think they just bonded over overcoming their experiences, and being great broads, and being tremendous mothers,” she explained.

From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2018

Every year, about this time, it was our practice to go in a house-boat over the broads of Samalda.

From The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Protests first began last month with students demanding better school conditions but they have escalated to take in a broader range of concerns with numbers at demonstrations bolstered by trade unions and various protest groups.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Analysts say the Seoul government's broader push to ease tensions with Pyongyang may also have given it reason to avoid turning the POWs' defection into a public spectacle.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

“It’s the biggest dichotomy we’ve seen between these lower-quality companies getting to distressed levels in credit, and the broader ‘risk markets’ priced nearly to perfection,” said Miskin.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Taylor Farms emphasized the correction; federal investigators maintained that their broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still implicated the company’s shredded iceberg.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Natalie said absently, switching to a broader view of the neighborhood.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

State Farm maintains a vast network of 19,000 agent offices in most U.S. states, one of the broadest footprints of any financial institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

“We have by far the biggest and broadest research bench of any of the labs out there,” Hassabis said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

David Hockney, who has died aged 88, was Britain's favourite artist - and a man of trenchant views, expressed in the broadest of Yorkshire vowels.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The broadest category of high-tech employment, including software development and computer design, totaled 2.37 million jobs in May.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

Thus, questions of the animal origins of human disease lie behind the broadest pattern of human history, and behind some of the most important issues in human health today.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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